Hancock News

BACKGROUND: New Hampshire avoided the fate of six other states that did not have a budget agreement in place for the start of the fiscal year on July 1. CONCLUSION: But that doesn't mean everything is just dandy with the faith-based budget adopted by the state Legislature last month.

You are self-reliant and indifferent to the opinions of others, thereby sometimes annoying your friends and associates.

You can plan now to attend these weekend events, occurring within a few weeks and a day's drive of Philadelphia.

You are blithe, poetic, and sometimes volatile. You love with ardor and sincerely, and though you are changeable in other things, your love is steadfast.

After a semester of concern over the fate of Boston University's Sargent Center for Outdoor Education, campers might not have to part ways with their green retreat after all.

The state budget leaves few happy campers. The $11.6 billion plan, which the Legislature may finalize Wednesday, imposes the meals and rooms tax on campsites for the first time.

You are impulsive, act quickly, and are easily discouraged, although you are a loyal friend and always anxious to help those in need.

Summer is approaching and we just have to ask, why should the kiddies have all the fun? Just look at them out there running around, shooting baskets and tossing balls like they have a monopoly on fun while we grown-ups foot the bills and clean up the dirt they track into the house.

A New Hampshire mother and son accused in an alleged murder-for-hire plot have struck plea deals with prosecutors, according to court documents.

Gerry Chagnon of Antrim is confined to a wheelchair as a result of disability and isn't able to do many physical tasks.

The ConVal School District struck out at the polls Tuesday, as the proposed budget, a teachers' contract and a $5.5 million bond for renovations to ConVal High School were all defeated.

A white New Hampshire man has been acquitted of civil rights violations in connection with a racially charged argument that also led to an assault charge against a former University of Massachusetts student who ...

Parents and friends of a missing Winchester teenager are uniting with police in a grass-roots effort to find the girl.

New Hampshire's sugaring season is officially under way. This week, Gov. John Lynch tapped a maple tree at Longview Forest Products in Hancock, and with the recent warm weather, the sap is running at many spots ...

A trial has begun for 1 of the men stabbed in a fight at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst last year.

Photo by Cori Urban - Allyson D. Hamelin, 11, of Greenfield, holds a copy of The Winter Lantern, a newspaper she and classmates in Joanne E. Rabideau's sixth-grade class at Gill Elementary School produced about ...

A nightclub with a history of violent incidents will be the subject of another disciplinary hearing by selectmen, who could suspend the club owner's liquor license or even shut his operation down.

To his supporters, Jason Vassell is a victim of a hate crime and a wrongful prosecution, a black student forced to defend himself one year ago against two white intruders in an unprovoked, racially motivated ...

After nearly 80 years, Boston University is closing a New Hampshire outdoor education center.

When George H. W. Bush decided to give the nation's governors "royal treatment" at his 1989 inauguration, it fell to his deputy director of political affairs, a New Hampshire resident, to ensure nary a governor ...